
How do I disable my Windows Startup sound?When I turn on my notebook computer, there is a sound or "music" as it powers up...just as I see the logo...and before it gets to Windows... How do I disable this "sound"/"music"...? It's very distracting in a business meeting and/or classroom. Actually, it's pretty easy to disable the Windows login sound and related sounds. That's done by going to Start --> Settings --> Control Panels then selecting the Control Panel "Sounds and Audio Devices". Click on the "Sounds" tab and it'll look like this: ![]() Scroll down just a bit and you'll find Start Windows and Windows Logon: ![]() Those are the two you want to change or disable entirely. To change them, click on the pop-up menu that currently says "Windows XP Startup" on my screenshot above. To disable them is a bit unintuitive: You need to also click on the pop-up menu, but this time you're interested in the top option: ![]() Select (None), click on "Apply" and you should be able to restart your computer with considerably less interruption next time you're in a meeting or at a class. Good luck!
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. I have a just recently purchased sony vaio laptop, and it plays a little jingle as soon as I turn the computer on, before it starts booting up. This happens when my computer is set on mute, and I don't see any options on that window to disable that specific sound. I'm going to be using my laptop in college next year, and I don't want to create a distraction in the classroom. Do you have any suggestions for me? Posted by: Leslie at June 3, 2006 10:40 PMHold F2 while the computers booting and you'll enter BIOS mode. From there go to advanced and turn off the logo thing. Hope this helps. Posted by: Seth at June 11, 2006 11:42 PMThanks. This worked like a charm. It is (was) annoying as h*ll to have my laptop blast the Windows logon tune each time I logged on. Good thing my automated feedback poster can do simple math! Bahaha. 19+16=34.
Thanks. This worked like a charm. It is (was) annoying as h*ll to have my laptop blast the Windows logon tune each time I logged on. Good thing my automated feedback poster can do simple math! Bahaha. 19+16=34.
Do you know a way to turn the thing off if the Start menu's Control Panel button is not there (admin-disabled)? Posted by: Lighty at March 19, 2007 3:57 PMi have some problems for video encoding. i have using imtoo encoder but they not work completely because restart my computer. what can i do please tel me Posted by: meera at April 6, 2007 6:47 AMI changed my start up sound to an edited speech of illidan from the warcraft burnng cruscade movie thing. It's a wav file just like the orignal start up sound. Well when i turn my computer on, it works....but only plays like the first 4 seconds of it. Is there a time limit on how long the startup sound has to be? And can i change it? Posted by: Persion # 0 at May 7, 2007 3:32 PMThe sound was pretty annoying and usually would disturb my sleeping child. If I were to search at on Windows help, it would have to taken me years to find this information hey umm i have a prob with my comp.. it plays random music on the startup and keeps on continuing till i turn the sound off! how do i make it go away!!!? Posted by: Ashleigh at September 17, 2007 5:59 PMthe problems is my windows startup sounds is disable.i already activate the sound option in the control panel->windows default scheme sounds..can you help me?i use Intel pentium Dualcore 2,66 gHz,windows XP Service pack 1.....you can email me at miftahhur_rahman@yahoo.com....thanks... Posted by: MiFTahhur at March 9, 2008 11:23 AMhi my problem is how to change the logon/logoff sound. Posted by: gopi at March 16, 2008 3:12 AMI have a lot to say, but ...
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